Display receptacle



Patented Oct. 20, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENVTOOOFFICE JOSEPH SIDNEY VILLERE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE E. E. FAIR- CHILD CORPORATION, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF 1\TEW YORK DISPLAY RECEPTACLE Application filed July 11, 1930. Serial No. 467,250.

The present invention relates to display receptacles and an object thereof is to provide a construction having one or more trays acting to close a. main tray and mounted so that they may be moved to positions where the contents of the movable trays as well as the main tray may be exposed. Another object of the invention is to provide a novel mounting for a movable tray.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter described: the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the display box showing the box open and one of the trays shifted to display position;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the inside of the box body with the main tray removed;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the main tray in an inverted position with the sliding trays in position thereon;

Fig. 4 is an end view partially in section showing one of the movable trays; and

Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse section through the receptacle showing the cover in open position.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention, 1 indicates the main body of the receptacle having a hinged, flanged or chambered cover or closure 2.

Within the body 1 is supported a tray 3 which, in this instance, is supported by a plate 1 in a slightly elevated position from the bottom of the body 1 to provide spaces 5 at the front and rear, the walls of which serve as longitudinal guides. The tray 3 is also spaced at 6 from the inner faces of the front and back walls of the body 1 by spacers 7 the walls of these spaces also serving as guides. The upper edge of the tray 3 extends preferably to the upper edge of the receptacle body 1.

Mounted above the tray 3, in this instance, are two trays 8 which have a combined area equal to the area of the tray 3 so that when positioned above the tray 3 they will entirely cover the latter and be received in the flanged or chambered cover 2.

The trays 8 are mounted to slide outwardly on the tray 3 and for effecting this action, there are provided, in this instance, two guides on each tray 8. In this instance, each guide embodies a strip of sheet metal having a hooked portion 9 at its upper end engaging over a wall of a tray and a portion 10 depending therefrom into a space 6 on the outer face of the tray 3, the lower end of the portion 10 having an inwardly turned portion 11 projecting into a space 5 and beneath the bottom of the tray 3. These guides are arranged one on the front and the other on the rear wall of each tray 8 near the proximate side walls of the two trays 8 and in abutment with the spacers 7 so that the inward movements of the trays are limited by the spacers 7 acting as abutment-s. The trays 8 may slide outwardly when the cover 2 is open, until the de-- pending guides thereon engage the end walls of the receptacle body 1, and the inwardly turned portions 11 by cooperating with the bottom of the tray 3 serve to support the trays 8 in projected positions beyond the side walls of the body 1 while the interior of the tray 3 is exposed. In other words, the contents of the three trays may be exposed at one time, and the sliding trays act as covers for the tray 3, either or both of which may be moved to gain access to the tray 3. 7

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a receptacle body, of a tray arranged in said body and having two opposite side walls spaced from the'inner faces of two opposite side walls of the body, and the bottom of the tray spaced from the inner face of the bottom of the body, a tray slidable on the upper edge of the first named tray, and two guides depending from opposite sides of the slidable tray into the spaces between the side walls of the first named tray and the body. said guides having portions operating beneath the bottom of the first named tray in the space between the bottom of said first named tray and the body.

2. The combination with a receptacle body and a hinged, chambered closure therefor, of a tray arranged in the receptacle body with its upper edge extending at least to the upper edge of the body, the bottom of the tray being spaced adjacent its front and its rear wall from the bottom of the body and the front and the rear wall of the tray being s aced from the front and the rear wall of the body, two slidable trays arranged when side by side to close the first named tray and to project into the chambered closure when the latter is in closed position, and two guides depending from the front and the rear walls of the two slidable trays ad'acent their proximate side walls and mto t e spaces between the front and therear walls of the body and the first named tray, the guides having portions extending beneath the bottom of the first named tray into the spaces beneath the latter.

JOSEPH SIDNEY VILLERE. 

